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"They cannot face the potential dangers. If they do they have to face the fact they may be abuisve to their children when forcing them to breathe their smoke or in the very least playing russian roulette with their health."

Excellent point, I had a few minutes and had to check in to see what our thin skinned smoking brothers and sisters were up to again. I see since I was gone a while, I've been called liberal, liar, scum, and quite a few other names because addicts can't admit they are addicts. The debate is fun as always, bu it's hard to enjoy when you've seen the results of long term smoking on people you love, like my dad. An old war vet, and great man that I watched in his last days struggle for his next breath, and had to have a fan blowing in his face so he could feel the air and at least feel he was getting some of it processed by his lungs. He died in his sixties. He told me smoking caused his sickness, I believe him.

My wife and I sat by her dad's beside while he died from cancer from smoking. It was awful for him and the family. The most insane thing was as he lay dying he still smoked. The only good thing is he died before knowing, according to the doctors, his oldest daughter got emphysema from his smoking. It would have hurt him deeply because he would have done anything he could for his children.

After he couldn't get out of bed and sneak into the bathroom to smoke he had us wheel his bed and him out to the parking lot to smoke. Of course he wasn't addicted. He enjoyed thme.

Two of our children never knew him and the other two miss him terribly. My wife struggles a lot with the loss of his presence at most family events. She often laments she wishes Dad could be here.